Howell Lee Watkins (1894-1965) was born near Boston, Georgia, and descended from a 17th-century governor of North Carolina. After graduating from Emory University, he taught school in Georgia, served in…

Donald Eugene Warren (1927-2014) was born in Miami and raised in Lakeland. He attended Washington and Lee University and Duke University Medical School, and completed a cardiology fellowship at Emory…

Daisy Emily Butler Lyman (1871-1964), West Palm Beach's first teacher and the wife of one of Lantana's founding sons, was born on March 25, 1871, in Cairo, Illinois. Two years after…

John Ireson Leonard (1886-1961) was born in Joliet, Illinois, where his father managed the local bank. Leonard attended nearby Lombard College and became an osteopathic and nephropathic physician in Joliet…

Ulysses Bradshaw "U. B. " Kinsey (1914-2005) was born the third of ten children in Fort White, in northern Florida. His father sold the family farm and bought a grocery…

Robert Wilson "Bob" Fulton (1916-1995) was born in Michigan and moved to Lake Worth with his family in 1924, where he graduated from Lake Worth High School in 1934. Fulton…

Thomas Farrar Fleming, Jr. (1916-1976) was born in Georgia and educated at the University of Florida and Harvard Business School. He settled in Boca Raton in 1940 with his wife,…

Watson B. Duncan III (1915-1991) of Charleston, South Carolina, taught English, Speech, and Drama at Palm Beach Community College for 43 years, from 1948-1991. His energy and passion kept his…

Marshall McAllister Criser Jr. (1928- ) was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Criser earned his bachelor's degree in business administration and his law degree at the University of Florida,…

Mary Lewis-Warren Bankston (1942- ) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and at the age of eleven moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, along with her eight siblings. Mary graduated from…